The Spirit Phone
Taking the idea of the telephone and the telegraph a bit further, Edison blazoned in October of 1920 that he was working on a machine to open the lines of communication with the spirit world. In the fate of World War I, spiritualism was witnessing a reanimation, and numerous people hoped wisdom could give the means to pierce the souls of the lately deceased. The innovator, himself an agnostic who admitted he’d no idea if a spirit world indeed was, spoke of his hunt in several magazines and explained to The New York Times that his machine would measure what he described as the life units that scatter through the macrocosm after death.
Edison corresponded with British innovator Sir William Crookes, who claimed to have captured images on” spirit photos.” These prints allegedly encouraged Edison, but he in no way introduced any machine that he said could communicate with the dead, and after his own death in 1931, no machine was set up. numerous people believe he was just playing a joke on the journalists he would talk to about his” spirit phone.”
Some people claimed that at a séance in 1941, Edison’s spirit told the actors that three of his sidekicks held the plans. The machine was reportedly also erected but didn’t work. latterly, at another séance, Edison apparently suggested some advancements. innovator J. Gilbert Wright was present and worked on the machine until his own death in 1959, but, as far as we know, no way used it to communicate spirits.
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